{"id":12627,"date":"2020-09-17T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12627"},"modified":"2020-09-16T21:14:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T04:14:19","slug":"strategika-67-u-s-troop-deployments-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/strategika-67-u-s-troop-deployments-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategika #67: U.S. Troop Deployments in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>America\u2014A European Power No More? Shifting Tectonics, Changing Interests, And The Shrinking Size Of U.S. Troops In Europe<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Please read a new essay by my colleague, Josef Joffe\u00a0in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Trump drawdown of U.S. troops in Europe is not the end of the alliance, but part of a familiar story. America\u2019s military presence has been contested from Week 1\u2014make that February 4\u201311, 1945. At Yalta, Franklin D. Roosevelt assured Joseph Stalin that the United States would soon depart from Europe. Its troops\u2014three million at the peak\u2014would all be gone in two years.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/america-european-power-no-more-shifting-tectonics-changing-interests-and-shrinking-size-us\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Is It Wise To Pull Out And Redeploy 12,000 U.S. Troops From Germany?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Please read a new essay by my colleague, Angelo M. Codevilla in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Trump\u2019s decision to return the U.S 2nd Cavalry Regiment currently stationed in Germany to American soil (6,500 troops), as well as to redeploy mostly Air Force units from Germany to Italy and command headquarters to Belgium and Poland (another 5,600), will have mostly modest positive military consequences and has already benefited America diplomatically. The military consequences are modest because U.S forces in Europe have long since ceased to be potential combatants.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/it-wise-pull-out-and-redeploy-12000-us-troops-germany\">Read the full article here.<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Return Of Forces From Germany?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Please read a new essay by my colleagues, Peter R. Mansoor in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On September 11, 1944, a patrol led by Staff Sergeant Warner L. Holzinger of Troop B, 85th Reconnaissance Squadron, 5th&nbsp;Armored Division, crossed the Our River from Luxembourg into Germany. Those five soldiers were the vanguard of a mighty Allied force that would within eight months conquer the Third Reich, thereby ending World War II in Europe.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/return-forces-germany\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2014A European Power No More? Shifting Tectonics, Changing Interests, And The Shrinking Size Of U.S. Troops In Europe Please read a new essay by my colleague, Josef Joffe\u00a0in Strategika. The Trump drawdown of U.S. troops in Europe is not the end of the alliance, but part of a familiar story. America\u2019s military presence has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3hF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12970,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/strategika-71-china-and-the-pandemic\/","url_meta":{"origin":12627,"position":0},"title":"Strategika #71: China and the Pandemic","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 15, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Domestic Disorder and International Credibility Please read a new essay by my colleague, Mark Moyar in Strategika. 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